Search Results - "Weinberger, Adam B."

Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Enhance Creative Cognition: Interactions between Task, Polarity, and Stimulation Site by Weinberger, Adam B, Green, Adam E, Chrysikou, Evangelia G

“…Creative cognition is frequently described as involving two primary processes, idea generation and idea selection. A growing body of research has used…”
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Conscious Augmentation of Creative State Enhances "Real" Creativity in Open-Ended Analogical Reasoning by Weinberger, Adam B, Iyer, Hari, Green, Adam E

“…Humans have an impressive ability to augment their creative state (i.e., to consciously try and succeed at thinking more creatively). Though this "thinking…”
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The Mental Models Training App: Enhancing verbal reasoning through a cognitive training mobile application by Cortes, Robert A, Weinberger, Adam B, Green, Adam E

“…Reasoning is a complex form of human cognition whose nature has long been debated. While a number of neurocognitive mechanisms for deductive reasoning have…”
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Implicit pattern learning predicts individual differences in belief in God in the United States and Afghanistan by Weinberger, Adam B., Gallagher, Natalie M., Warren, Zachary J., English, Gwendolyn A., Moghaddam, Fathali M., Green, Adam E.

“…Most humans believe in a god, but many do not. Differences in belief have profound societal impacts. Anthropological accounts implicate bottom-up perceptual…”
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What Makes Mental Modeling Difficult? Normative Data for the Multidimensional Relational Reasoning Task by Cortes, Robert A, Weinberger, Adam B, Colaizzi, Griffin A, Porter, Grace F, Dyke, Emily L, Keaton, Holly O, Walker, Dakota L, Green, Adam E

“…Relational reasoning is a complex form of human cognition involving the evaluation of relations between mental representations of information. Prior studies…”
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Spatial activity participation in childhood and adolescence: consistency and relations to spatial thinking in adolescence by Peterson, Emily Grossnickle, Weinberger, Adam B., Uttal, David H., Kolvoord, Bob, Green, Adam E.

“…Background Prior research has revealed positive effects of spatial activity participation (e.g., playing with blocks, sports) on current and future spatial…”
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Dynamic development of intuitions and explicit knowledge during implicit learning by Weinberger, Adam B., Green, Adam E.

“…Implicit learning refers to learning without conscious awareness of the content acquired. Theoretical frameworks of human cognition suggest that intuitions…”
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Functional Realignment of Frontoparietal Subnetworks during Divergent Creative Thinking by Beaty, Roger E, Cortes, Robert A, Zeitlen, Daniel C, Weinberger, Adam B, Green, Adam E

“…Abstract Creative cognition has been consistently associated with functional connectivity between frontoparietal control and default networks. However, recent…”
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Thinking Cap Plus Thinking Zap: tDCS of Frontopolar Cortex Improves Creative Analogical Reasoning and Facilitates Conscious Augmentation of State Creativity in Verb Generation by Green, Adam E, Spiegel, Katherine A, Giangrande, Evan J, Weinberger, Adam B, Gallagher, Natalie M, Turkeltaub, Peter E

“…Recent neuroimaging evidence indicates neural mechanisms that support transient improvements in creative performance (augmented state creativity) in response…”
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Analogical mapping across sensory modalities and evidence for a general analogy factor by Weinberger, Adam B., Gallagher, Natalie M., Colaizzi, Griffin, Liu, Nathaniel, Parrott, Natalie, Fearon, Edward, Shaikh, Neelam, Green, Adam E.

“…Analogy is a central component of human cognition. Analogical “mapping” of similarities between pieces of information present in our experiences supports…”
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Re-examining prominent measures of divergent and convergent creativity by Cortes, Robert A, Weinberger, Adam B, Daker, Richard J, Green, Adam E

“…•Divergent & convergent thinking require further empirical & ontological development.•The AUT & the RAT both involve mixtures of divergent & convergent…”
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Neuroethical and Social Implications of Using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation to Augment Creative Cognition by Weinberger, Adam B., Cortes, Robert A., Green, Adam E., Giordano, James

“…Recent research indicates that transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) of specific brain regions can successfully improve various forms of creative…”
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Differentiating Personified, Supernatural, and Abstract Views of God Across Three Cognitive Domains by Johnson, Kathryn A., Weinberger, Adam B., Dyke, Emily, Porter, Grace F., Kraemer, David J. M., Grafman, Jordan, Cohen, Adam B., Green, Adam E.

“…Social scientists have greatly advanced our understanding of how people think and feel about God as a person-like, supernatural being. However, there has been…”
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Transfer from spatial education to verbal reasoning and prediction of transfer from learning-related neural change by Cortes, Robert A., Peterson, Emily G., Kraemer, David J. M., Kolvoord, Robert A., Uttal, David H., Dinh, Nhi, Weinberger, Adam B., Daker, Richard J., Lyons, Ian M., Goldman, Daniel, Green, Adam E.

“…Current debate surrounds the promise of neuroscience for education, including whether learning-related neural changes can predict learning transfer better than…”
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Psychological responses to buildings and natural landscapes by Weinberger, Adam B., Christensen, Alexander P., Coburn, Alexander, Chatterjee, Anjan

“…People frequently form aesthetic judgements of built and natural environments. Identifying psychological responses induced by one's surroundings – as well as…”
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Effects of expertise on psychological responses to buildings and natural landscapes by Weinberger, Adam B., Garside, Eleanor W., Christensen, Alexander P., Chatterjee, Anjan

“…Recent work on the aesthetics of the built and natural environment has shown that aesthetic responses are derived from three interrelated psychological…”
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